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  • Copyright 2011
  • Edition: 1st
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  • ISBN-10: 0-13-700179-7
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-700179-8

The Complete Guide to Managing Work Items and Workflow with IBM® Rational® ClearQuest® and IBM Rational Team Concert™

Work items are the lifeblood of software and hardware development. They tell development teams exactly who is doing what, which issues are resolved, which remain unresolved, and which products are impacted. In large, team-based projects, however, managing work items can be difficult. Now, two IBM Rational experts show how to simplify and improve every aspect of work item management with IBM Rational ClearQuest and the powerful and collaborative Jazz™-based products: IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) and IBM Rational Quality Manager.

Drawing on extensive experience with IBM customers, the authors tightly link theory with proven best practices, offering implementation guidance, detailed examples, and complete solutions. They present innovative solutions, introduce advanced customization techniques, and walk step-by-step through every phase of workflow development, from requirements through maintenance. They conclude with a full chapter of sample applications and solutions, ranging from Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management to SLAs.

Coverage includes

  • Understanding work items and their elements
  • Using work items for changes, tasks, activities, test plans, test cases, risks, builds, and promotion
  • Implementing best practices for work item application planning, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance
  • Describing workflows, including advanced dynamic workflows
  • Incorporating roles in work items and using them to meet business needs
  • Using ClearQuest packages and custom integrations, and making the most of Jazz platform integration technology
  • Getting the most of out the CQ-ALM schema
  • Implementing effective quality and performance metrics, SLAs, and governance
  • Improving test management with IBM Rational Quality Manager work items
  • Creating effective workflows for Scrum and other Agile projects

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Table of Contents

Preface xix

Acknowledgments xxvii

About the Authors xxix

Chapter 1: Work Items 1

1.1 Work Item Definition 1

1.2 Work Item Classification 4

1.3 Work Item Elements 7

1.4 Customization 13

1.5 Resources 19

1.6 Summary 20

Chapter 2: Disciplines: Requirements, Analysis & Design 21

2.1 Requirements 23

2.2 Analysis & Design 29

2.3 Design Patterns 36

2.4 Review and Sign Off Design Models 40

2.5 Resources 40

2.6 Summary 40

Chapter 3: The Workflow 43

3.1 Software Development Processes 44

3.2 Process Representation 45

3.3 The States 50

3.4 Dynamic Workflow 56

3.5 ClearQuest ALM Schema Workflow 65

3.6 Jazz Workflow 66

3.7 Subflow 68

3.8 Summary 78

Chapter 4: The Data 81

4.1 Work Item Content 83

4.2 State-Based Objects 104

4.3 Stateless Objects 104

4.4 Object Relations 106

4.5 Data Representation 117

4.6 ClearQuest Scripts 120

4.7 Summary 126

Chapter 5: Roles 127

5.1 Understanding Typical Problems 128

5.2 Understanding Terms and Concepts 129

5.3 Possible Solutions 132

5.4 Security and Roles 139

5.5 Roles in the ClearQuest ALM Schema 140

5.6 Roles in Jazz 142

5.7 Code Examples 144

5.8 Summary 151

Chapter 6: Integrations 153

6.1 Introduction 153

6.2 ClearQuest Integrations 155

6.3 Jazz Products Integrations 177

6.4 Resources 195

6.5 Summary 196

Chapter 7: Disciplines, Part 2 197

7.1 Implementation Discipline 197

7.2 Testing Discipline 199

7.3 Deployment Discipline 201

7.4 Maintenance 207

7.5 ClearQuest Tool Mentor 208

7.6 Jazz Tool Mentor 217

7.7 Resources 220

7.8 Summary 220

Chapter 8: Development 221

8.1 ClearQuest Schema Development 222

8.2 Parallel Development 240

8.3 Comparing and Merging Schema Versions 245

8.4 Storing Hooks Externally 249

8.5 Releasing a Version to Production 250

8.6 Globally Distributed Development (GDD) Considerations and ClearQuest MultiSite (CQMS) 253

8.7 ClearQuest Script Debugging 255

8.8 Other Development Considerations 260

8.9 Web Considerations 274

8.10 Preparing for the Future 277

8.11 Resources 277

8.12 Summary 278

Chapter 9: Metrics and Governance 279

9.1 Metrics 279

9.2 Governance 287

9.3 Resources 301

9.4 Summary 305

Chapter 10: Test Management and Work Items 307

10.1 What Is Rational Quality Manager? 307

10.2 Understanding Test Entities and Work Items 307

10.3 Work Items in the Test Process 310

10.4 Customization 316

10.5 Summary 324

Chapter 11: Managing Agile Projects 325

11.1 Defining Agile Development 325

11.2 Agile and Scrum in a Nutshell 326

11.3 Realization with Rational Team Concert 330

11.4 Realization with ClearQuest 337

11.5 Agile with the ALM Schema 346

11.6 Resources 350

11.7 Summary 351

Chapter 12: Sample Applications and Solutions 353

12.1 Collaborative ALM with Jazz-Based Tools 353

12.2 User-Defined Fields in ClearQuest 356

12.3 Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in ClearQuest 363

12.4 ClearCase, ClearQuest ALM, Build Forge Integrated Solution Architecture 367

12.5 Manage Release Promotion 374

12.6 Resources 382

12.7 Summary 384

Index 387

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